UPDATED: Corrections chief fired from her job

UPDATE: Gardinier and Brendan J. Lyons report that Vibert has filed a notice of claim alleging that Mahar fired her because she would not shred documents or retaliate against a jail officer. Read the story on the allegations here.

The first woman to head a county jail in the Capital Region has been fired from her post as the chief of corrections for Rensselaer County.

Ruth Vibert got the job in March 2012 with the promise she would bring a higher level of professionalism to the jail, but Mahar on Monday confirmed the 49-year-old Pittstown woman was let go last week from her $85,078-a-year job.

“I really can’t comment much on it because it is a personnel matter, but Ruth failed to meet the minimum standards under civil service law to keep her job,” Mahar said.

Officials familiar with the case said that Vibert’s job agreement required her to finish some college credits, but that she was unable to do so. Mahar did not say whether the position would be filled.